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Travis Peters crowned Mr. Fitness Mania 3

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Travis Peters crowned Mr. Fitness Mania 3

Bobb-Semple, Charles, Andries are other category winners Total Fitness Mania 3 lived up to all the pre-competition hype and took the East Bank by storm on Saturday night at the Digital...

Mayor’s Cup Football Championship…Alpha United needles Slingerz FC to cart off one million dollars and trophy

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup Football Championship…Alpha United needles Slingerz FC to cart off one million dollars and trophy

A clever bit of dribbling by Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson followed by a sharp right foot shot that flew past Slingerz FC custodian, Ronson Williams, in the 9th minute, earned Alpha...

TGH Pacesetters go 7-0, Pepsi Sonics also win

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on TGH Pacesetters go 7-0, Pepsi Sonics also win

Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters improved its win/loss record to perhaps an unassailable 7-0 in the Georgetown sub-association Division I League Sunday night on Burnham Basketball Court...

Clive Atwell to face toughest test when he tackles Venezuelan, Rafael Hernandez

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clive Atwell to face toughest test when he tackles Venezuelan, Rafael Hernandez

GUYANA BOXING BOARD OF CONTROL REDEMPTION BOXING CARD … By Michael Benjamin When Clive Atwell engaged Prince Lee Isadore for the WBC CABOFE Lightweight title in October...

Wartsila powers National Youth, Junior C/ships

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wartsila powers National Youth, Junior C/ships

Power providers, Wartsila under its ‘energy, excitement and excellence’ theme has contributed to the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) National Youth and Junior Championships slated...

Assuria Invitational Tennis Classic…Downes and Miller to contest Men’s final

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Assuria Invitational Tennis Classic…Downes and Miller to contest Men’s final

– Lowden leads Over-35 Group Men’s Singles top seed Anthony Downes was made to fight for a straight sets victory over junior sensation Daniel Lopes, before prevailing...

Buxton United receives spoils for Kashif and Shanghai tournament

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buxton United receives spoils for Kashif and Shanghai tournament

Dr. Colin Watson, a Washington DC based Guyanese who had assured a set of new uniforms for the winner of the 22nd edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament, has delivered as...

“Yes we can” have change

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Yes we can” have change

By Rawle Welch It became one of the most famous quotes ever by a US President when Barack Obama speaking during his victory speech shortly before commencing his first term in office,...

West Demerara beat East Bank to take DCB Inter Association U-19 title

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Demerara beat East Bank to take DCB Inter Association U-19 title

East Coast overcome GT By Zaheer Mohamed West Demerara defeated East Bank by 6 wickets to win the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter Association U-19 50 over competition which concluded...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Naim Chan clears the air on Unity SC/Shiv Chanderpaul issue

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Naim Chan clears the air on Unity SC/Shiv Chanderpaul issue

Dear Editor, Please permit me space to respond to a letter in another section of the media dated 2nd April 2013 Re:” No one authorised to collect funds on behalf of Shiv Chanderpaul...

Withdraw all Jagdeo-issued radio frequencies now – Nagamootoo

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Withdraw all Jagdeo-issued radio frequencies now – Nagamootoo

“There will be no compromise on this matter” Former People’s Progressive Party ‘Big Wig’, Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday called for the withdrawal of all the radio frequencies that were...

“Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher dead at 87

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher dead at 87

(Reuters) – Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who transformed Britain and inspired conservatives around the world by radically rolling back the state during her 11 years in...

Thieves caught on camera stealing mirror from KN staffer’s car

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves caught on camera stealing mirror from KN staffer’s car

Car parts’ thieves, emboldened by their slickness, decided to strike once again this weekend, but may have picked the wrong target. This time they followed a female Kaieteur News staffer...

Teen stabbed to death on Kitty seawall

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teen stabbed to death on Kitty seawall

– four detained Police have detained four men as they try to ascertain how a 19-year-old Lodge resident ended up being stabbed to death near the Kitty seawalls around 02: 30 hrs yesterday....

Budget 2013…Rohee boasts of achievements in Security sector

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2013…Rohee boasts of achievements in Security sector

Home Affair Minister Clement Rohee in his 2013 Budget debate speech, yesterday, started off in a solemn mode, offering his condolences to the relatives and friends of the late Dr. Dale Bisnauth and...

APNU wants Government Ministers to take polygraph

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU wants Government Ministers to take polygraph

By Abena Rockcliffe A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has, twice since the reading of budget 2013, signaled its desire to have Government Ministers take a polygraph. A press...

Dem boys seh…Shaatie don’t understand he own budget

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Shaatie don’t understand he own budget

Some people was talking and dem boys hear a man seh that Guyana woulda end up wid a lot of one-hand Minister. Dem boys couldn’t understand. Was only when a man seh that in some Muslim...

14-year-old boy missing since last November

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 14-year-old boy missing since last November

The family of a missing 14-year-old boy is desperately hoping for the young man’s safe return. He went missing from their West Watooka, Linden home, last November. Deryck Oudkerk’s...

Stiff screening for mining outfits to prevent money laundering

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stiff screening for mining outfits to prevent money laundering

– more lands to be released this month-end By Leonard Gildarie New laws will soon be introduced to prevent possible money laundering and the entrance of questionable characters into the...

Govt embracing public/private partnership to augment airlift service

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt embracing public/private partnership to augment airlift service

Government is looking to embrace a public/private approach as it seeks to encourage more air traffic to these parts, a move which comes in wake of plans by Delta Airlines to depart the local...

Woman makes claims of repeated physical abuse against Government Minister’s son

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman makes claims of repeated physical abuse against Government Minister’s son

A 28-year-old woman is scared for her life after repeated reports to the police about an abusive ex- boyfriend continues to go unaddressed. According to woman (name given), her ex-boyfriend...

Govt dubs opposition plans to cut NCN allocation a “direct assault on media”

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt dubs opposition plans to cut NCN allocation a “direct assault on media”

– insists Skeldon and GPL subventions are necessary Despite disclosures by the National Communications Network of a $500 million profit last year, vehement attempts were yesterday made...

REEPU AND DALE

Apr 09, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on REEPU AND DALE

This past week the nation of Guyana lost two of its jewels: the former Minister of Education, Dale Bisnauth; and the former Minister of Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs, Reepu Daman Persaud....

This year’s budget focuses on every Guyanese – Human Services Minister

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on This year’s budget focuses on every Guyanese – Human Services Minister

By Latoya Giles Minister of Human Service and Social Security, Jennifer Webster, says that representatives in the National Assembly must be committed to working together for the benefit of all...

Queens-based Guyanese lawyer, sister charged in US$3.3M mortgage fraud

Apr 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Queens-based Guyanese lawyer, sister charged in US$3.3M mortgage fraud

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, joined by New York State Department of Financial Services, Superintendent Benjamin M. Lawsky, on Friday announced that three individuals, including a...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more